Author: Randy Sims
Happy Birthday, Hannah!
Hannah is 12 years old today. Its hard to imagine that its been twelve years already. It also seems like Hannah’s always been around us. And its great. She’s grown up so much in twelve years. I can’t even tell you just how proud I am to be a part of her life, to have […]
Continue Reading...August 14, 1765 – Boston Meets the Sons of Liberty
On this day, about five months following the signing of the Stamp Act of 1765, two hundred forty-four years ago, an effigy was hung from a tree on Newbury Street in Boston. The effigy was of Andrew Oliver, the man to be commissioned as the Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts.
Continue Reading...The Farmers Market
We went to the Farmers Market today at Mathews Courthouse. It was nice, and low key. There were plenty of vegetables to be had for a decent price as well as local seafood and honey. A lady selling her gourmet food sold us a pint of curried chicken, and we had that for lunch with […]
Continue Reading...Fourth of July in Mathews County
When we moved to Mathews County, we knew it was small and we might miss out on some things. One of those that I assumed we would have to do without was Fourth of July fireworks. After all, they’re expensive! Since we were moving in on that July Fourth weekend, though, I was paying attention […]
Continue Reading...Cub Scout Day Camp
The week for the Chesapeake Bay Council’s day camp came to an exciting end yesterday. Mona did such a great job with keeping it fun – everything was so piratey, and the kids really loved it! Isaac was in a group of really great boys from around the area. They had their ups and downs, […]
Continue Reading...Army Guys Optional Rule: Luck Shot!
I was explaining to one of Isaac’s friends the difficulty (futility, really) of running around the corner of a building, spotting someone on top of a tower, bringing up your rifle and popping off a couple of shots. The odds of successfully shooting someone in that position are approximately 3,720 to 1! (Never tell me the odds!) […]
Continue Reading...SQL Server’s oSQL – How to Create a Date-Stamped Log
Use oSQL to run a query and save the output to a file that includes the date in the filename.
Continue Reading...Army Guy Miniature Game: The Basic Rules
The following game was created by my son and I. All rights reserved, but feel free to print and play it! This game is playing Army Guys with rules! You will also get quick at doing some basic math, but nothing that’s too big a deal. This is a great introduction to miniatures since the […]
Continue Reading...SQL Server’s Max Degree of Parallelism
I’ve been working on performance issues in the production database this week, taking it from a “server” level instead of database/table/index level and also adding some query changes. The database is working better, and I am continuing to keep it heading in that direction. Adding OPTION (MAXDOP 1) to certain queries has increased performance (sometimes […]
Continue Reading...Auto-start Defragging a SQL Server
A VBScript that shuts down SQL Server and starts defragging the specified drives, assuming the SQL Server backups you want completed are done.
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